Dactylotum bicolor, commonly called the rainbow grasshopper, painted grasshopper, pictured grasshopper, or barber pole grasshopper, is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is native to the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico, and its brightly patterned body is an example of aposematism, a warning display to predators. It was first described by the German entomologist Toussaint de Charpentier in 1843.
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Source Wikidata: Rainbow Grasshopper
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Source Wikipedia: Dactylotum bicolor
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1. GBIF Species API
2. Wikipedia: Dactylotum bicolor
Wikipedia- Wikidata Q13565184 (P225 taxon name)
In Biome: Grassland, article text (habitat biome), EntityId 341624, target B16267
It is found in shortgrass prairie, desert grasslands, thinly vegetated areas and alfalfa fields throughout the western Great Plains of the United States (and southern Canada), southward to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and
View the Source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Wikidata: Rainbow Grasshopper
Child Taxon Of: Orthoptera, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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